Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
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Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
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Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
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Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
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abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
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Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
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van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
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Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
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Østhus, Hanne; Toplak, Matthias S. (Ed.)
Viking Age Slavery Collection
2021.
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abstract = {The existence of slaves in Viking Age society and the slave trade of the Vikings has been a matter of long debates. While the actual fact has now been established beyond any doubt, many questions remain. The possibilities of an archaeological approach to slavery and slave trade, the extent of slaves in Scandinavia and their importance for the economy as well as the scope of the slave trade and the implications for Viking Age society still need to be discussed. These aspects are the topic of ten recent papers united in this volume.
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Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
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abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
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Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
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Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
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abstract = {A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
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de Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes
Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century] Journal Article
In: 2020.
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Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
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Piqueras, José Antonio
The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery, pp. 79-103, 2020.
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Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes; Reinfandt, Lucian; Stouraitis, Yannis (Ed.)
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E Collection
2020.
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2023
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
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2022
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
Tags: 19th century, convict labour, latin america, punishment, slavery, united states
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Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery
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Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, punishment, runaways, slavery, united states
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Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity
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author = {Viola Müller},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
abstract = {Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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title = {Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Kate Ekama, and Lisa Hellman and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery
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title = {Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
issuetitle = {Slavery in Early Modern East, Inner, and Southeast Asia},
journal = {Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies },
volume = {81},
issue = {1-2},
pages = {39-65 },
abstract = {Over the past century, the late imperial Chinese nubi system has been the subject of numerous studies. Depicted as a highly exploitative mode of labor coercion, it has nonetheless been radically differentiated from slavery. In this article, I explore how nubi were conceptualized in late imperial China through the lens of lineages’ domestic regulations and admonitions. Nubi bondage was first and foremost a living experience of strong asymmetric dependency. However, as a de jure institution, its conceptual and normative dimensions do matter as they justified the enslavement of human beings and contributed to shaping household practices. Domestic regulations reveal a process that transformed outsiders into absolute inferiors. This consideration alone is an incentive to reconsider the alleged disqualification of nubi as a form of “slavery” and to engage broader comparisons with slavery in a more global perspective.
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keywords = {bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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title = {Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Slavery & Abolition},
volume = {43},
issue = {3},
pages = {460-481 },
abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
},
keywords = {china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2021
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, religion, slavery, Tanganjika, Zanzibar
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title = {Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926.},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {The findings expose how missionaries, as some of earliest examples of Europeans who tried to control African labour, supported and undermined certain livelihood trajectories. Despite the abolition of slavery in 1897 in Zanzibar and the fact that the UMCA was closely linked with the anti-slavery movement, ex-slaves continued to struggle with their social status.
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pubstate = {published},
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van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, indian ocean, slavery
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title = {Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World},
editor = {Matthias van Rossum and Alexander Geelen and Bram van den Hout and Merve Tosun},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of slavery were shaped.
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keywords = {early modern history, indian ocean, slavery},
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour
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title = {Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness]},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Astrid Windus et al. },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Arbeit – Macht – Kapital},
pages = {51-60},
keywords = {19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour},
pubstate = {published},
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Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery
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title = {Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Josef Köstlbauer and Sarah Lentz },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850},
keywords = {atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Østhus, Hanne; Toplak, Matthias S. (Ed.)
Viking Age Slavery Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {Viking Age Slavery},
editor = {Hanne Østhus and Matthias S. Toplak},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {The existence of slaves in Viking Age society and the slave trade of the Vikings has been a matter of long debates. While the actual fact has now been established beyond any doubt, many questions remain. The possibilities of an archaeological approach to slavery and slave trade, the extent of slaves in Scandinavia and their importance for the economy as well as the scope of the slave trade and the implications for Viking Age society still need to be discussed. These aspects are the topic of ten recent papers united in this volume.
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keywords = {medieval history, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {6},
issue = {3},
pages = {343–368},
abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
},
keywords = {convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: gender, italy, medieval history, slavery
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title = {The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa},
author = {Hannah Barker},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {6},
issue = {2},
pages = {187–217},
abstract = {Why did fifteenth-century Genoese slaveholders insure the lives of enslaved pregnant women? I argue that their assessment of the risks associated with childbirth reflected their views on the connection between slavery, property, and lineage. Genoese slaveholders saw the reproductive labor of enslaved women as a potential contribution to their lineage as well as their property. Because their children by enslaved women might become their heirs, Genoese slaveholders were inclined to worry about and seek protection against the risk of maternal mortality. In the context of the commercial revolution and the rise of third-party insurance, they developed life insurance for enslaved pregnant women to complement the fines already required of those who illegally impregnated enslaved women and thereby endangered their lives.
},
keywords = {gender, italy, medieval history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies},
author = {Raffaella Sarti},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {67},
issue = {1},
pages = {65-95},
abstract = {A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
},
keywords = {abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2020
de Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes
Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century] Journal Article
In: 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century]},
author = {Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This article explores, in part, the coercive work of Moorish slaves in Setúnal (Portugal) in the 16th century and how that work is reproduced after freedom.
},
keywords = {early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century},
author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Atlantic Studies},
volume = {17},
issue = {3},
pages = {348-374},
abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
},
keywords = {19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Piqueras, José Antonio
The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery, pp. 79-103, 2020.
Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery
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title = {The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery},
author = {José Antonio Piqueras},
editor = {Dale Tomich},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery},
pages = {79-103},
keywords = {19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes; Reinfandt, Lucian; Stouraitis, Yannis (Ed.)
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: ancient history, medieval history, migration and mobility, slavery
@collection{nokey,
title = {Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E},
editor = {Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Lucian Reinfandt and Yannis Stouraitis},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This volume includes a general overview and case studies of mobility and migration across different spatial scale in the area from Eastern Europe to East Africa and from Central Asia to the Mediterranean, including phenomena of (voluntary and involuntary) labour mobility and slavery.
},
keywords = {ancient history, medieval history, migration and mobility, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715)},
author = {Klaus Weber and Karsten Voss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {5},
issue = {2},
pages = {204-237},
abstract = {From 1698, colonial officers and investors from France forged a conglomerate of companies for transforming Saint-Domingue into a sugar colony, thus augmenting incomes of tax farmers and of the crown. Capital was also captured from enemy colonies and generated through trade with Spanish possessions. The most important capital were slaves, both as laborers and mortgageable property—crucial during the War of Spanish Succession, which brought price volatility and speculation in land and sugar. In order to secure the colony’s development, authorities restricted rights of owners over their slaves, preventing their sale or abuse. Only around 1715 was such protection of slaves suppressed.
},
keywords = {caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China Book Chapter
In: Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): pp. 57-82, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, abolition, china, slavery
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title = {The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani },
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
pages = {57-82},
abstract = {Chevaleyre explores ‘slavery’ in late imperial China by focusing on two commonly overlooked elements. First, he explores the original abolition process that emerged from Sino-Western confrontations in the context of the Shanghai Settlement and its Mixed Court in the first decade of the twentieth century. Second, he attempts to shed light on the conceptualization of ‘slavery’ as it surfaces from early Ming legislative sources and to question its impact on the shaping of social practices. In so doing, Chevaleyre considers ‘China’ as a global normative space and approaches the issue of ‘slavery’ in this global space ‘from above’, that is, by focusing on the abstraction of ‘slavery’ rather than on the concrete situation of ‘slaves’.},
keywords = {20th century, abolition, china, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Rydén, Göran; Evans, Chris
Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Weiss, Holger (Ed.): Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, pp. 117-146, 2020.
Tags: atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century},
author = {Göran Rydén and Chris Evans},
editor = {Holger Weiss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century},
pages = {117-146},
keywords = {atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
2019
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, dependency, forced labour, labour markets, new history of work, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘},
author = {Judy Fudge},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Global Labour Journal },
volume = {10},
issue = {2},
pages = {108-122},
abstract = {Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
},
keywords = {capitalism, contemporary, dependency, forced labour, labour markets, new history of work, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Müller, Viola
Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 60, pp. 865-868, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, race, runaways, slavery, united states
@article{nokey,
title = {Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860},
author = {Viola Müller},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Labor History},
volume = {60},
pages = {865-868},
abstract = {Between 1800 and 1860, thousands of people escaped slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the US South. There, runaway slaves joined free African Americans, of whom many were undocumented residents of their states. This ‘undocumentedness’ placed them in a liminal status between free and unfree. The increasingly disadvantageous socio-economic position of the free black population created opportunities for runaway slaves to blend in in large numbers, as well as for the undocumented as a whole to make ends meet.
},
keywords = {19th century, race, runaways, slavery, united states},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin
From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries) Journal Article
In: Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, vol. 17, iss. 2-3, pp. 257-280, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries)},
author = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World},
volume = {17},
issue = {2-3},
pages = { 257-280},
abstract = {This article deals with offences and crimes against female slaves, and those committed by female slaves, in Ottoman Istanbul (sixteenth-seventeeth centuries). Its main sources are imperial legislation and court records of the imperial capital, Istanbul, and its suburbs. Judicial archives remain the chief sources of early modern Ottoman historiography on gender. This contribution tackles slavery’s specificities regarding women, without ignoring the parallels with their male counterparts in the Ottoman Empire. By considering women as both objects and agents of legal violations and acts of violence, I simultaneously deal with the rights of slaveholders and slaves. Violations of these rights varied depending on the identity and juridical status of their authors, and were handled accordingly by the justice system. Thus, I consider violations committed by owners against their slaves, by slaves against their owners, and by third parties against the slaves of others. The rights and mutual obligations of masters and slaves were strictly defined in Ottoman law, although the judicial authorities upheld the preservation of private property above all. They dedicated themselves to fighting against the slightest doubt over masters’ quasi-absolute authority over their human possessions, whose unconditional obedience was required. Female slaves, in order to affirm their rights, had to provide irrefutable written proof or trustworthy verbal testimonies at the kadi courts.
},
keywords = {early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2018
Fudge, Judy
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization Journal Article
In: Social and Legal Studies, vol. 27, iss. 4, pp. 413-434, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, labour markets, marxism, slavery, united kingdom
@article{nokey,
title = {Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market: The Social Dynamics of Legal Characterization},
author = {Judy Fudge},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Social and Legal Studies},
volume = {27},
issue = {4},
pages = {413-434},
abstract = {Treating the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act as its focus, this article examines what the legal characterization of labour unfreedom reveals about the underlying conception of the labour market that informs contemporary approaches to labour law in the United Kingdom. It discusses how unfree labour is conceptualized within two key literatures – Marxist-inspired political economy and liberal approaches to modern slavery – and their underlying assumptions of the labour market and how it operates. As an alternative to these depictions of the labour market, it proposes a legal institutionalist or constitutive account. It develops an approach to legal characterization and jurisdiction that is attentive to modes of governing and the role of political and legal differentiation both in producing labour exploitation and unfree labour and in developing strategies for its elimination. It argues that the problem with the modern slavery approach to unfree labour is that it tends to displace labour law as the principal remedy to the problem of labour abuse and exploitation, while simultaneously reinforcing the idea that flexible labour markets of the type that prevails in the United Kingdom are realms of labour freedom.
},
keywords = {capitalism, contemporary, labour markets, marxism, slavery, united kingdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Harnoncourt, Julia
Unfreie Arbeit: Trabalho escravo in der brasilianischen Landwirtschaft [Unfree labour. Trabalho escravo in the agricultural sector in Brazil] Book
2018.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, brazil, forced labour, latin america, qualitative research, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = {Unfreie Arbeit: Trabalho escravo in der brasilianischen Landwirtschaft [Unfree labour. Trabalho escravo in the agricultural sector in Brazil]},
author = {Julia Harnoncourt},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
abstract = {This book on unfree labour/trabalho escravo in the agricultural sector in Pará/Brazil, is based on an extensive interview study. Therein the specific labour relations are considered an outcome of local as well as global structures. Apart from the coercion inside the labour relation itself, local hierarchies, Brazil’s long history of slavery and other forms of unfree labour, the role of the state, racism and gender relations, as well as the incorporation of the Amazon basin and Brazil into the global economy all take part in (re)constructing the specific form of trabalho escravo in Para’s agriculture.
},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, brazil, forced labour, latin america, qualitative research, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
Müller, Viola
Illegal but Ignored: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860 Book Chapter
In: Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.): Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1775-1860, pp. 137-167, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, slavery, united states
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Illegal but Ignored: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860},
author = {Viola Müller},
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
booktitle = {Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1775-1860},
pages = {137-167},
abstract = {This chapter examines the experiences of runaway slaves in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. It asks why and how slave refugees were able to carve out living spaces for themselves, what the consequences of this ‘illegal freedom’ were, and how city authorities dealt with them. It shows that Richmond was one of many places within slaveholding territory where slave refugees could live as if they were free.
},
keywords = {19th century, slavery, united states},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Østhus, Hanne
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbeiderhistorie, vol. 22, pp. 33-47, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = { Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = { Arbeiderhistorie},
volume = {22},
pages = {33-47},
abstract = {The article examines the situation of slaves and former slaves who were brought, presumably by force, from Africa, Asia and America to the European part of Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to work as domestic servants in households. Based on source material from servant reward societies, censuses, newspapers and court cases, it is argued that state and society utilised a number of strategies to classify and categorise slaves and former slaves.
},
keywords = {19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.)
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, Gainesville Collection
2018.
Abstract | Tags: canada, caribbean, mexico, slavery, united states
@collection{nokey,
title = {Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, Gainesville},
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
abstract = {This volume contains 11 original essays that introduce a new way of studying the experiences of runaway slaves by defining the different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
},
keywords = {canada, caribbean, mexico, slavery, united states},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
}
Stanziani, Alessandro
Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law Book
2018.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, africa, bonded labour, india, indian ocean, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = {Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law},
author = {Alessandro Stanziani},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
abstract = {After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland.},
keywords = {abolition, africa, bonded labour, india, indian ocean, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran
‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact Journal Article
In: Past & Present, vol. 239, iss. 1, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact},
author = {Chris Evans and Göran Rydén},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
journal = {Past & Present},
volume = {239},
issue = {1},
abstract = {An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
},
keywords = {19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2017
Achim, Viorel
The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery Book Chapter
In: Damian Alan Pargas, Felicia Roşu (Ed.): Critical Readings on Global Slavery., vol. 4, pp. 983-1043, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, medieval history, roma, romania, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery},
author = {Viorel Achim},
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas, Felicia Roşu},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Critical Readings on Global Slavery.},
volume = {4},
pages = {983-1043},
abstract = {A syntesis on the history of slavery of Gypsies (Roma) in the Romanian countries in the 14th-18th centuries. The chapter reproduces the chapter with the same title in Viorel Achim, The Roma in Romanian History (2004), pp. 27-85.},
keywords = {central and eastern europe, medieval history, roma, romania, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Sin, Slave Status and the City in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930 Journal Article
In: African Studies Review, vol. 60, pp. 139-60, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar
@article{nokey,
title = {Sin, Slave Status and the City in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {African Studies Review},
volume = {60},
pages = {139-60},
abstract = {Missionaries believed that being an ex-slave or descendant of ex-slave went hand with urbanity and moral contagion. As far as the ex-slaves were concerned, the growing commercial centre of Zanzibar, and the coastal cultures it was associated with, were not only enticing, but crucial to social and economic mobility. Thus, though livelihoods could be found at the mission, young and able workers looked to the town to increase their chances of survival.
},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin
L’esclavage dans l’Empire ottoman (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Fondements juridiques, structures socio-économiques, représentations Book
2017.
Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = {L’esclavage dans l’Empire ottoman (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Fondements juridiques, structures socio-économiques, représentations},
author = {Hayri Gökşin Özkoray},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
keywords = {early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}
Pargas, Damian Alan
Urban Refugees: Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Informal Freedom in the American South, 1800-1860 Journal Article
In: Journal of Early American History, vol. 7, iss. 3, pp. 262-284, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, slavery, united kingdom
@article{nokey,
title = {Urban Refugees: Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Informal Freedom in the American South, 1800-1860},
author = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Early American History},
volume = {7},
issue = {3},
pages = {262-284},
abstract = {This article examines the experiences of runaway slaves who fled to urban areas within the American South, rather than to free-soil states and territories in North America. By utilizing free black social networks, changing their names and appearances, and procuring forged free papers just in case they were stopped by authorities, they managed to forge clandestine lives of informal freedom right in the heart of the slaveholding South.
},
keywords = {19th century, slavery, united kingdom},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Piqueras, José Antonio
Historical Slavery and Capitalism in Cuban Historiography Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century, pp. 67-122, 2017.
Tags: capitalism, caribbean, cuba, historiography, latin america, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Historical Slavery and Capitalism in Cuban Historiography},
author = {José Antonio Piqueras},
editor = {Dale Tomich},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century},
pages = { 67-122},
keywords = {capitalism, caribbean, cuba, historiography, latin america, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Rossi, Benedetta
Périodiser la fin de l’esclavage: Le droit colonial, la Société des Nations et la résistance des esclaves dans le Sahel nigérien, 1920-1930 Journal Article
In: Annales (Histoire, Sciences Sociales), vol. 72, iss. 4, pp. 983-1021, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, abolition, africa, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Périodiser la fin de l’esclavage: Le droit colonial, la Société des Nations et la résistance des esclaves dans le Sahel nigérien, 1920-1930},
author = {Benedetta Rossi},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Annales (Histoire, Sciences Sociales)},
volume = {72},
issue = {4},
pages = {983-1021},
abstract = {This article argues that legal abolition is not enough to end slavery: laws must be enforced to create conditions in which those most vulnerable will feel able to safely take action against slavers. It shows that emancipation in the West African Sahel was initially propelled in the 1920s by the establishment of international surveillance mechanisms with the power to (de-)legitimize colonial rule at a time when no one was actively seeking to end slavery in this region, in spite of slavery having been legally abolished since 1905. The first half of the paper focuses on the ambiguities of European abolitionism and the interconnections between the League of Nations, France, and French administrators on the ground. The second half of the paper develops a micro-analysis of slave resistance, showing how enslaved and trafficked young women took advantage of international anti-slavery to incriminate slaveholders.
},
keywords = {20th century, abolition, africa, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Terra, Paulo Cruz
Trabalhadores escravizados e livres na legislação municipal (Rio de Janeiro, século XIX) Book Chapter
In: Pestana, Marco Marques; de Carvalho Costa, Rafael Maul; de Oliveira, Tiago Bernardon (Ed.): Subalternos em movimento: mobilização e enfrentamento à dominação no Brasil, pp. 95-208, 2017.
Tags: 19th century, brazil, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Trabalhadores escravizados e livres na legislação municipal (Rio de Janeiro, século XIX)},
author = {Paulo Cruz Terra},
editor = {Marco Marques Pestana and Rafael Maul de Carvalho Costa and Tiago Bernardon de Oliveira},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Subalternos em movimento: mobilização e enfrentamento à dominação no Brasil},
pages = {95-208},
keywords = {19th century, brazil, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Chevaleyre, Claude
Under Pressure and out of Respect for Human Dignity: the 1910 Chinese Abolition Book Chapter
In: Cottias, Myriam; Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne (Ed.): Distant Ripples of The British Abolintionist Wave: Africa, Asia and the Americas, 2017.
Tags: 20th century, abolition, bonded labour, china, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Under Pressure and out of Respect for Human Dignity: the 1910 Chinese Abolition},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Myriam Cottias and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Distant Ripples of The British Abolintionist Wave: Africa, Asia and the Americas},
keywords = {20th century, abolition, bonded labour, china, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
2016
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, indian ocean, intendured labour, migration and mobility, slavery, South Africa
@article{nokey,
title = {Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s},
author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Southern African Studies},
volume = {42},
issue = {3},
pages = { 443-461},
abstract = {Focusing on Durban and its harbour, the article discusses the importation of different kinds oftransnational bonded labour into Natal in the last half of the 19th century, and examines theways in which Southern African and Indian Ocean histories were intertwined in the processesthat built the colonial state. The institution of the Protector of Indian Immigrants is highlightedas a central ingredient in state building, which served to give legitimacy in regulating the supplyof labour. The early history of the Protector’s work in the 1870s is given special attention asregards the introduction into Natal of freed slaves from the Indian Ocean coast, of indenturedlabourers from India, and of ‘Amatonga’ migrant workers from Mozambique. An 1877 murdercase is discussed, which led to the forced resignation of a Protector, as it threatened to underminethe respectability of the institution. The article shows the continuities that existed between formsof servitude from slavery and forced labour through the recruitment of ‘liberated Africans’ andindentured Indians to more recent types of migrant and voluntary wage labour.
},
keywords = {19th century, africa, indian ocean, intendured labour, migration and mobility, slavery, South Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Piqueras, José Antonio
The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracon: The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): The Politics of the Second Slavery, pp. 83-111, 2016.
Tags: 19th century, latin america, slavery
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title = {The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracon: The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations},
author = {José Antonio Piqueras},
editor = {Dale Tomich},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {The Politics of the Second Slavery},
pages = {83-111},
keywords = {19th century, latin america, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
van Rossum, Matthias; Kamp, Jeannette (Ed.)
Desertion in the Early Modern World: A Comparative History Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, globalisation, runaways, slavery, social control
@collection{nokey,
title = {Desertion in the Early Modern World: A Comparative History},
editor = {Matthias van Rossum and Jeannette Kamp},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
abstract = {Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves. They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline and control their labour force.
},
keywords = {early modern history, globalisation, runaways, slavery, social control},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
}
Weber, Klaus; Steffen, Anka
Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia Book Chapter
In: Brahm, Felix; Rosenhaft, Eve (Ed.): Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850, pp. 87-107, 2016.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, proto-industry, slavery, textile industry
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia},
author = {Klaus Weber and Anka Steffen},
editor = {Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft },
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850},
pages = {87-107},
keywords = {atlanic, early modern history, germany, proto-industry, slavery, textile industry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
2015
Spicksley, Judith
Contested enslavement: the Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800 Journal Article
In: Itinerario , vol. 39, iss. 2, pp. 247-275, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: africa, angola, atlanic, debt, early modern history, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Contested enslavement: the Portuguese in Angola and the problem of debt, c. 1600-1800},
author = {Judith Spicksley},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-02},
urldate = {2015-01-02},
journal = {Itinerario },
volume = {39},
issue = {2},
pages = {247-275},
abstract = {This article explores the contested legitimacy of enslavement for debt in the context of the transatlantic slave trade.
},
keywords = {africa, angola, atlanic, debt, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Schiel, Juliane
Slaves’ Religious Choice in Renaissance Venice: Applying Insights from Missionary Narratives to Slave Baptism Records Journal Article
In: Archivio Veneto, iss. 146, pp. 23-45, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, italy, medieval history, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Slaves’ Religious Choice in Renaissance Venice: Applying Insights from Missionary Narratives to Slave Baptism Records},
author = {Juliane Schiel},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
journal = { Archivio Veneto},
issue = {146},
pages = {23-45},
abstract = {This article investigates the motivation for and interests behind the baptism of slaves imported into late medieval Venice. It reviews Venetian slave sale records and reports left by mendicant missionaries and illustrates that baptism was less a matter of individual spiritual choice than a social practice perceived by the slave holders as an act of charity.
},
keywords = {christianity, italy, medieval history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Weber, Klaus
Linen, Silver, Slaves, and Coffee: A Spatial Approach to Central Europe’s Entanglements with the Atlantic Economy Journal Article
In: Culture & History Digital Journal, vol. 4, iss. 2, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: atlanic, central and eastern europe, commodity chains, slavery, spatial history, textile industry
@article{nokey,
title = {Linen, Silver, Slaves, and Coffee: A Spatial Approach to Central Europe’s Entanglements with the Atlantic Economy},
author = {Klaus Weber},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
urldate = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Culture & History Digital Journal},
volume = {4},
issue = {2},
abstract = {In German scholarship of the post-war period, the category of space was regarded as discredited, because of its abuse during the Nazi period. This applies in particular to the 1970s and 80s, when novel approaches in social and economic history were developed. Research on proto-industrialisation, broadly examining its internal structures, did not take into account the export orientation of Central Europe’s early modern commodity production. At the same time, the expanding research on Europe’s Atlantic empires, including the trans-Atlantic slave trade, did hardly take notice of the manufactures from the Holy Roman Empire, distributed all around the Atlantic basin. This paper examines those conditions favouring German proto-industries which are relevant for a ‘spatial approach’ to the phenomenon. It also covers the late medieval beginnings of this process, in order to demonstrate the continuity of Central Europe’s entanglement with the Atlantic world. The paper further emphasises that any future research using spatial categories must be aware of the ideological contamination of the German term ‘Raum’ during the 19th and 20th century. The interlace of economic and social history with historiography demands a compilation from current and older research literature, some of it on different regions and subjects.},
keywords = {atlanic, central and eastern europe, commodity chains, slavery, spatial history, textile industry},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Weber, Klaus
Mitteleuropa und der transatlantische Sklavenhandel: eine lange Geschichte [Central Europe and the trans-atlantic slave trade: a long (hi)story] Journal Article
In: WerkstattGeschichte, iss. 66-67, pp. 7-30, 2015.
Tags: atlanic, central and eastern europe, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Mitteleuropa und der transatlantische Sklavenhandel: eine lange Geschichte [Central Europe and the trans-atlantic slave trade: a long (hi)story]},
author = {Klaus Weber},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
urldate = {2015-01-01},
issuetitle = {Europas Sklaven [Europe's Slaves]},
journal = {WerkstattGeschichte},
issue = {66-67},
pages = {7-30},
keywords = {atlanic, central and eastern europe, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Weber, Klaus
Blurred Concepts of Slavery Book Chapter
In: Hilgendorf, Eric; Marschelke, Jan; Sekora, Karin (Ed.): Slavery as a Global and Regional Phenomenon, pp. 17-47, 2015.
Tags: historiography, slavery
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title = {Blurred Concepts of Slavery},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Eric Hilgendorf and Jan Marschelke and Karin Sekora},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Slavery as a Global and Regional Phenomenon},
pages = {17-47},
keywords = {historiography, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
2014
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
African Workers and the Universities‘ Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900 Journal Article
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 8, iss. 3, pp. 366-381, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar
@article{nokey,
title = {African Workers and the Universities‘ Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst },
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Eastern African Studies},
volume = {8},
issue = {3},
pages = {366-381},
abstract = {This article explores the connections between African workers and Christian missions in late nineteenth-century Zanzibar. The main finding is that missionaries found themselves hiring slaves in order to build their cathedral, which is ironically a symbol of abolition.
},
keywords = {19th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Pargas, Damian Alan
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, slavery, united states
@book{nokey,
title = {Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South},
author = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
abstract = {This book sheds light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.
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Schiel, Juliane; Hanß, Stefan (Ed.)
Mediterranean Slavery Revisited (500-1800). Neue Perspektiven auf mediterrane Sklaverei (500–1800) Collection
2014.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, mediterranean, slavery
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date = {2014-01-01},
abstract = {This volume consists of 22 contributions own English, French, German or Italian language addressing the history of Mediterranean slavery from the medieval to the early modern period. The first section contains papers on the semantics, representations and depictions of slavery; the second section focuses on practices of slaving while the third section brings together papers with a transcultural or interdisciplinary approach.},
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Stanziani, Alessandro
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, bonded labour, central asia, europe, indian ocean, intendured labour, longue duree, russia, slavery
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title = {Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries.},
author = {Alessandro Stanziani},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
abstract = {For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. Finally, Stanziani demonstrates that this world did not collapse after the French Revolution or the British industrial revolution, as is commonly assumed, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.
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2013
Spicksley, Judith
The decline of slavery for debt in Western Europe in the medieval period Book Chapter
In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta (Ed.): Schiavitù e Servaggio nell’Economia Europea Secc. XI-XVIII [Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th–18th Centuries], pp. 465-86, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, medieval history, slavery, western europe
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booktitle = {Schiavitù e Servaggio nell’Economia Europea Secc. XI-XVIII [Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy 11th–18th Centuries]},
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abstract = {This article examines the impact of secular and religious change on the legitimacy of enslavement for debt in medieval Europe.
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2012
Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
A Slave Is not Supposed to Wear such a Garment Journal Article
In: Kaskal , vol. 9, pp. 99-120, 2012.
Tags: ancient history, babylonia, slavery
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2011
Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
Slavery between Judah and Babylon: The Exilic Experience Book Chapter
In: Culbertson, Laura (Ed.): Slaves and Household in the Near East, pp. 113-134, 2011.
Tags: ancient history, babylonia, household, slavery
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2008
Weber, Klaus; Meissner, Jochen; Mücke, Ulrich
Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery] Book
2008.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, latin america, slavery, united states
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date = {2008-01-01},
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